Word: minuetting
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...feel "back in bikini form"), she still gave the staid Staatsoper audience a grinding, squirming portrayal of disheveled depravity that it would not soon forget. "After all," explained she after eight curtain calls, "the belly dance is Oriental and very old; Herod wasn't interested in the minuet...
...nation's first great leaders," said the present leader, "were also our first great scholars." A contemporary described Thomas Jefferson as a 'gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance the minuet and play the violin.' John Quincy Adams, after being summarily dismissed by the Massachusetts legislature from the United States Senate for supporting Thomas Jefferson, then became Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, and then became a great Secretary of State. And Senator Daniel Webster could stroll...
...dancing a stately minuet, Macmillan seemed to advance toward Europe one minute, then twirl and step backward the next. Was he being too cautious? "Forever Amber," sniffed the Liberal Party's peppery Lady Violet Bonham Carter, echoing the growing criticism of Mac's leadership in general. The British public now seemed squarely in favor of making common cause with the Europeans, was beginning to grumble as the government held back. Even the usually loyal London Times had stern words for the P.M.: "The government must set the pace . . . it must cease to shilly-shally . . . The pound is weak...
...Minuet for Two. Pass defense is the crucial job for a safety man. Although he has run 100 yds. in 9.9 sec., Patton does not consider himself a fast man by pro. standards. For the sake of speed, Patton wears no hip pads, makes do with a piece of sponge rubber over each hipbone. With the rest of the famed Giant defensive unit. Patton has studied his opponents' attacking habits thoroughly. Patton knows that the fine blocking of the Baltimore Colts will give Quarterback Johnny Unitas four seconds or more to pass; he knows too that the St. Louis...
...backfield, Patton lines up about 7 yds. away from the man he intends to cover, always shading to one side so that the receiver will have only one clear path. At the snap of the ball, the two men start a routine as formal yet as frantic as a minuet in oldtime flicker films. Running backward all the while, Patton must counter the receiver's maneuvers without falling for a fake. To avoid head, arm and hip fakes. Patton watches a spot roughly in the vicinity of the receiver's wishbone, on the sound theory that it will...